Native Spirit Festival

🎬 World Indigenous Cinematic Arts 🌍 UK 🌏 Taiwan
20th Film Festival Oct-Dec 2026

[Native Spirit Festival @NativeSpiritUK]

Indigenous Arctic Films, Artists' display, caribou pelt handling, in-person Greenlandic film aker, photographer, poet Dennis Møller

🗓️ Tue 3 Nov 6-9pm
📍@SPRI The Polar Museum #Cambridge

🎟️ free register Eventbrite https://t.co/YdM6UBokmH

[MA Documentary Film @LCCLondon UAL @MADocFilm]

MA#Documentary Film x Native Spirit Film Festival Film screening: Dance of the Kokorrdit + directors Q&A & Kipara demo Fri Oct 23, 5- 8pm screen 6pm A young Wounaan woman returns to the Darién Gap rainforest, in search of kokorrdit, a sacred bird. Book https://t.co/IBGLXne6bC

[Welsh Government @WelshGovernment]

At 9:15am today, Wales will fall silent to remember those who were taken from us in the Aberfan disaster.

60 years may have passed, but we will never forget them.

[Native Spirit Festival @NativeSpiritUK]

Friday 23 October 5-8pm
🌿 Kipara demo
📽️ Dance of the Kokorrdit
🎤 Directors Q&A
📡 audience live link-up to Native Spirit Festival programme at 4th Indigenous Festival, Poland, National Museum in Gdansk
🎟️ register via UaL Eventbrite

[Native Spirit Festival @NativeSpiritUK]

💸 contribute via @Chuffed #datasovereignty
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#nativespiritfestival #2026

[Native Spirit Festival @NativeSpiritUK]

💸 #nativespiritfestival 2026 #crowdfunder now live #IndigenousCinema #NativeFilm #SupportIndieFilm

[National Film Board of Canada @thenfb]

🧡 7 films for 7 teachings 🧡
Afro-Anishnabe filmmaker and actress Adeline Bird shares the lesson of Courage in Ossie Michelin's FEATHER FALL.
🐻 Watch the full discussion on our YouTube channel → https://t.co/5C3nIvRnPl #StreamCanadian #IndigenousCinema

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Traditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, from the Greeks (who wrote odes to their heroes' hair) to the Nordic, from the American Indians (famous for their long shiny hair) to the Japanese. And the longer and beautiful the hair was, the more manly the warrior was considered. Vikings flaunted their braids and samurai wore their long hair as a symbol of their honor (they cut their braid when they lose honor).

When a warrior was captured, his mane was cut to humiliate him, to take away his beauty. That custom resumed in what is today military service. There when new soldiers begin their training the first thing they do is cut their hair to undermine their self-esteem, make them submissive and make them see who's boss.

The Romans were the ones who "invented" short hair so to speak, between the 1st-5th Centuries AD. In battles they believed this gave them defensive advantages, since their opponents couldn't grab them by the hair. This also helped them to recognize each other in the battlefield.

Short hair on men is a relatively new "invention" that has nothing to do with aesthetics. But today we often see men being humiliated, sometimes called "gay" for wearing long hair, not knowing that short hair is actually the "anti-masculine" and is a repressive social imposition, while long hair symbolizes freedom.

📷 : Rick Mora, a Native American actor and model of Yaqui and Apache descent. He is recognized for his work in film and photography, often highlighting traditional masculinity.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[El Fantasma @AlTopeyPunto891]

🇧🇴👋🇧🇴🫡🇧🇴👏🇧🇴🙌🇧🇴✌️🇧🇴
Habías visto a un pueblo tan valiente en estos tiempos de títeres serviles y lacayos al imperialismo yankee?
Creo que no 🤔, este pueblo es Bolivia caminando sin cesar miles de kilómetros con un solo objetivo la renuncia de Rodrigo Paz por traidor.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

After the dams came down on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe didn't wait for nature to fix itself.

For decades, four hydroelectric dams turned a living river into stagnant reservoirs. They blocked salmon and steelhead from 400 miles of spawning grounds, fueled toxic algae blooms, and raised water temperatures past what the fish could survive.

When the last dam came down in late 2024, the river ran free again. But the exposed reservoir beds, 2,200 acres of bare sediment, were unstable and wide open to invasive species.

So the Yurok Tribe got to work. Along a 38-mile stretch, tribal crews hand-sowed billions of native plant seeds, planted 76,000 trees and shrubs, and seeded 28,000 acorns.

Nearly 100 native plant species. All by hand. All from seeds collected locally and grown out specifically for the restoration.

It's already working. Salmon are spawning in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century. Lupines and willows are stabilizing the banks. The river is breathing again.

The Klamath is now the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, and the people doing the heaviest lifting are the ones who have lived along that river for thousands of years.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Britain’s oldest cave art can be found in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧, at Bacon Hole, a cave cared for by the National Trust on Gower...

Initially dismissed as naturally occurring marks over a hundred years ago, an international team of scientists confirmed that the art was created by humans 17,000 years ago.

Amazingly, this is just one of many sites dating to the Palaeolithic that are in the care of the National Trust.

📷© George Nash

#archaeohistories

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

Join us at our free screening of 'The Price of Memory' a doc film from Jamaica about slavery reparations, Queen Elizabeth II and Rastafari on Saturday 6 June 2026 at 18:00 GMT at The Black Cultural Centre Islington. Book now at https://t.co/CnibWCnuyF #jamaica #reparations

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

Georgia O’Keeffe Country was never O’Keeffe’s to begin with. Tewa artists reassert their Indigenous relationship with the land in a new exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. https://t.co/Wh4joY2IFq

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

The River Wye has just made UK history.

For the first time, an entire river catchment has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with rights - including the right to flow, thrive, regenerate, and be free from pollution.

It's a major victory for nature.

[Native Spirit Festival @NativeSpiritUK]

31 May 2026📽INDIAN HORSE
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway First Nations boy survives the Canadian residential school system to become a talented ice hockey player
Based on award-winning novel by Richard Wagamese
📍SPLOJ SINEMA youth-powered arts culture space #Machynlleth #Cymru

[La Jornada @lajornadaonline]

Tres mujeres de pueblos originarios que se han dedicado a producir y dirigir películas o documentales coincidieron en la necesidad de que sus trabajos no sólo se presenten en salas de cine o las pantallas, sino que regresen a las comunidades https://t.co/SgRlEWz1fe

[Native American Media Alliance @AllianceNative]

Are you a Native American writer with a story that needs to be on the big screen?
9th Annual Native American Feature Film Writers Lab Regular deadline is 6/15! This is your chance to join a 10week writers program and launch your writing career!
Apply: https://t.co/VcgTfu31VU
#indigenouswriters #screenwriting

[Otaku no Culture @Otakunoculture]

Now on @thenfb and #streaming free is Siksikakowan The Blackfoot Man. This #documentary offers a thoughtful look at rejecting stereotypes, examines tribal masculinity and #indigenious perceptions in #media #moviereview at:

[Hot Docs Cinema @HotDocsCinema]

🎸 RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD 🎤

Celebrate the musical contribution and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music.

“A vibrant survey of a criminally overlooked aspect of American popular music” – The Los Angeles Times

📅: Thurs, June 25, 6:30 PM

[Native Spirit Festival @NativeSpiritUK]

@APTNNews more Indigenous-owned distribution companies, more productions in Native languages and scripts